"We know you have the information we seek. Just give it up and we'll let you go without a scratch." The woman states.
"I don't know, what information you're speaking of. I'm just a floral shop owner. Unless you're seeking flowers, I can't help you." I say. The tight cuffs are starting to hurt my wrists. Ha, new record-two days.
"Bullshit! We know you are an American spy. Now tell us!" I shake my head and refuse. The woman smirks.
"Turn it up." She states, and the electricity shocks me once again.
"Ana..." I'm brought back to the present by Christian. It's then I notice that I'm sitting at a dinner table with my husband and his family. Shit.
"Yes, sorry." I say and shake my head to get rid of my thoughts. Everyone is staring at me, like they're waiting for me to finish talking. Then I remember that I was in the middle of a story on how I got my job.
"As I was saying, I had applied to almost all the publishing houses here in Seattle until I heard from SIP. Luckily they hired me. I was so close to giving up my dream." I smile and shake my head, as if I'm recalling that moment.
"Well, it's very good that you didn't Ana. Christian tells me you are an excellent editor." Grace says and smiles at me.
"Did he?" I ask and look over to Christian who winks at me.
"So, how did you two meet?" Mia asks as we sit in the living room eating our desserts, chocolate covered fruit. Shit! Did we have a story? Quite some agent you are Ana.
"Actually Mia, Christian tells the story better than I do." I say and rest my hand over his thigh in a caring way. He glances at me and smirks. Placing his hand over mine, he starts.
"I had a meeting with a client one afternoon. She was an author who was in the process of getting her book published so, she told me to meet her at SIP." He looks over to me and smiles. "I agreed, knowing that it would only take about ten minutes since she had to sign a few papers. She signed the papers and when I was leaving to go back to the office, I run into the most beautiful pair of ocean-blue eyes I have ever seen." He takes my hand and kisses it. Huh, not bad."It all went uphill from there." I was certainly not expecting that. Is it werid that I'm kinda turned on right now? Uh...yes Ana!
"Wow! That seems like something that happens in a movie!" Mia shrieks. Relax honey, it might be.
The rest of the night Christian and I spend tucked into each other. He's either holding my hand or I'm resting my head on his shoulder.
It's finally 9:30 and the parents seem ready to go. Grace stands with Carrick. "Thank you very much for inviting us to dinner Ana. Although next time, I'm hosting." She says. I smile and nod.
"Of course Grace. Our home is your home, you are welcome any time." I say and give her a hug. She hugs me back and whispers in my ear, "You are perfect for him Ana. Thank you." She lets me go and smiles at me widely. Perfect? She backs away and I shake hands with Carrick.
"I do apologize for our older son, he got stuck with work and was unable to get here in time." Carrick says and releases my hand.
"It's no problem Mr. Grey, I understand." I mutter and smile.
"Please Ana, call us Grace and Carrick." Grace says and holds her husbands hand. I nod at them and smile.
Next is Mia, who is all over me to go shopping with her sometime. I just nod and make empty promises. I'll be gone by then sister! Christian and I hug everyone one last time before they walk out.
He closes the door behind them and turns to me. "Good job tonight Agent. I think we were very convincing." Wow, a compliment on my work.
"You too. Your story was very persuading." I say and smile. He's good at coming up with quick lies. I idly wonder if he's lied to me so far.
"Thank you. Although I think you planted that one on me purposely." He says and walks toward me slowly, eyeing me up and down.
"Maybe I did, but to be fair your winking was pissing me off." I state while walking backwards and hitting a wall. He smirks and continues to saunter towards me until he's close to my ear. I can feel his breath along my neck.
"Yeah? Then remind me to do it more often." He says smirking and turns around to walk up the stairs. Ugh! What a tease.
After cleaning up the kitchen and washing the dishes, no help from Mr. Ima great story teller, I decide to go upstairs and take a warm bath. Before I get to my room something comes to mind, the agents never came tonight. Shit!
I run over to Christian's room and knock on his door. No answer. I knock harder.
"Just a second." He says and opens the door in only his pajama bottoms. No shirt. Wow, he's got some fine abs. He raises his eyebrows at me after I don't say anything for a while.
"Uhh...did you hear anything about those agents that were going to come observe us?" I ask, trying not to get distracted again. He scratches his head.
"No, I didn't hear anything but they do that sometimes."
"What? Not showing up?" I ask. He nods.
"It's just a test Ana, relax." He says and squeezes my arm reassuringly before shutting the door. A test?
After my bath I put on my pink silk night shirt and matching silk shorts. So comfy. I literally jump into bed and wait for the darkness to take over.
About two hours later I'm awaken by a crashing noise coming from downstairs. What the fuck? I grab my gun from the drawer of my nightstand and slowly go to walk down the stairs. Keeping the gun pointed down, I slide into the living room and hear more noise coming from the kitchen. A food thief, huh.
As quietly as possible I tip-toe into the kitchen with the gun pointed upwards. There I see Christian and a woman on the kitchen counter.
"Ugh, what the fuck are you doing?" I ask and look away while putting my gun in the waist band of my shorts.
"Uh..sorry Ana, did we wake you?" Yes! That's why I'm down here you idiot!
"Yes, but if you're going to do that, please go someplace else. Perhaps your bedroom. You do know we cook in the kitchen, right?" And I hide my weapons in here. I turn away to walk back upstairs. God, that man has no shame.
"It's just a test Ana, relax." I hear behind me. I turn around to see that the woman is gone and Christian is no longer indisposed. What?
"A test? Are you fucking serious?" I ask and put my hands on my hips.
"She was a paid actress. I was testing you to see if you have my back. I'm a deep sleeper."
"Oh my god! You are completely insane. Of course I've got your back. I'm your partner!" I say and continue to walk up the stairs, into my bedroom. I'm so done with this mission.
The next morning I awake to birds chirping by my window. Shut up! I'm not Cinderella.
After 30 minutes of the chirping, I can't take any more. I put my hair into a high messy bun and brush my teeth before I wash my face. I'm taking a lazy day today, so I'm staying in my pjs.
I walk into the kitchen to see that breakfast is already made. Pancakes, eggs, omelets, toast, fruit... he can cook?
Christian smiles at me and hands me a cup of freshly brewed coffee. I notice he too is wearing his pajama bottoms and a plain black t-shirt. I take the coffee from him and squint my eyes.
"You made all this?" I ask and wave my hand towards the table. He scoffs.
"I love you Ana, but I don't love you so much that I'll cook you this big of a breakfast." He says and smirks.
I roll my eyes.
"So funny Chris." I say and take a sip of the coffee. Yum. He squints at me.
"No I didn't cook this, I ordered it. I thought it would be a nice way to apologize for last night." Last night? Oh yeah, last night. Ugh.
"You don't need to apologize. Just don't do it again." I say and sit down to eat. I didn't realize how hungry I was.
As I'm finishing my breakfast there's a knock on the door. Christian and I look at each other and then at the door. Who would be bothering us this early in the morning? Well, it is 9:00.
"I'll get it." Christian says and gets up from the table.
"I'll go with you." I say and follow behind him. He looks through the peep hole and scrunches his face.
"Who is it?" I ask trying to peer over his shoulder.
"I don't know, some old lady." He says and backs away. Does he not like old people? I look through the peep hole to see Darla standing there with her dog. I open the door smiling.
"Darla, what a nice surprise!" I say enthusiastically. She smiles at me and eyes me up and down as well as Christian, who is standing behind me.
"Hello Ana darling, I didn't wake you did I?" I shake my head.
"No Darla, we were just having breakfast." I say. Darla looks at Christian with a certain gleam in her eyes.
"And you are?" She asks him and puts her hand out. He grabs it and shakes lightly, letting go almost immediately.
"This is my husband, Christian. Christian, Darla lives across the street. I met her on Friday." I state. Darla continues to eye Christian in a way that even I can tell, makes him uncomfortable. This is so funny!
"Darla would you like to join us for breakfast?" I ask. Christian looks over to me with a slightly worried expression. Darla laughs and shakes her head.
"Thank you Ana, but I'll have to decline today. My grandson has already made me breakfast, which I should probably get to." She says.
"It was nice seeing you again Ana." Darla says and kisses my cheek. Her eyes move to Christian.
"...and it was nice to meet you Christian." She purrs. Christian nods and smiles breifly. Darla winks at him and walks away.
I close the door and look over to Christian. He's squinting his eyes at me.
"Darla seemed to like you." I say with a smile as I walk back to the kitchen. Christian follows me.
"Yes, I noticed." He says and downs his coffee. "I'm gonna go shower."
"Christian, I think we should go scope the neighborhood." I say and place my empty plate in the sink. He turns around with a questionable look.
"Uh, why?" He asks.
"Because we need to see what we're up against." I state as a matter of fact.
"Ana...are you aware that we're just birds? We report what we see and that's it. We're not suppose to get involved into anything." What?
"Oh come on! You've got to be the most boring spy ever!" I say and hop on the counter but regret it immediately when I feel that my shorts have ridden up too far. Christian eyes my legs and stays silent for a few minutes.
"Okay, fine." He states and walks away. Steele 1, Grey 0.
I get dressed in a blue hoddie with black leggings and black Nike shoes. I walk out to the kitchen and grab a bottle of water from the fridge. When I turn around I see Christian walking towards me wearing almost the same thing, instead he's wearing a gray hoddie, black sweats and gray and black shoes.
"You ready?" I ask.
"Yes, lets go." He says and walks outside.
It's been about 10 minutes of walking around the neighborhood and we haven't seen anything suspicious yet. Christian is walking with his hands in his pockets, his hood covering his head and earphones blasting music. The suspected mafia house is empty. No cars and seems like no one is home.
As we're walking a group of girls jogging together pass us. They look like Victoria's Secret models with their perfect hair and toned bodies. All of them check out Christian as they jog by, but he seems totally oblivious to their sharp stares. I quickly grab ahold of his hand and stare at them back.
"What are you doing?" Christian whispers and takes out one his earbuds. The models roll their eyes at me and look away in disgust.
"Just playing the part." I state and let go of his hand. He nods his head and continues on walking. I stop in my tracks when I see the same SUV from the other day pull up in front on the mafia house.
I grab Christian and push us behind a bush.
"What the fu-?" He says and stops talking when I put my finger up to my lips, indicating him to shut up. I point ahead causing him to look up and see the same men in suits exiting the car and entering the house.
"I wonder what's going on in there." I say and get up from behind the bush. Christian shrugs.
"I dunno. Can we go back to the house now?" He asks. Why is he acting so weird? Like a teenager who snuck out and is afraid he's gonna get caught.
"Will you relax? I have a plan." I say and start to walk towards the house.
Little did I know that this was the day that all shit hit the fan.
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